Lead Environmental & Sustainability Advisor

We care… That’s why we need someone like you, someone who cares about the environment, communities, your colleagues and customers!

The Role...

We have an exciting new opportunity for a passionate environmentalist, that will provide countless opportunities to make a positive difference and expand knowledge. You will be supporting our business and customers to deliver legal and voluntary sustainability and environmental objectives. This varied role will put you in contact with colleagues across our business, clients and statutory regulators, where we’ll look to you to build collaborative relationships.

Here are some of the activities you’ll be involved with...

• Provide expert environmental advice across all phases of planned and unplanned works
• Establish baseline conditions and ensure regulatory compliance whilst promoting the safeguarding of the environment
• Undertake inspections and audits ensuring legal compliance
• Monitor, analyse and report on environmental performance
• Produce plans for environmental management (EMS), waste, material management and emergency response
• Deliver training at all levels of the business, that promotes a positive culture and provides employees with the skills to safely achieve environmental & sustainability objectives
• Monitor and review environmental events, ensuring incidents and near misses are correctly reported, categorised, and investigated
• Deliver learning outcomes and continuous improvements

We would love to hear from you if you can demonstrate the following...

• Extensive experience working in the environmental sector and in-depth knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Significant experience in waste management and a detailed understanding of environmental permits and compliance.
• Significant experience working with ecology, archaeology, arboriculture and water environment specialisms.
• Proven experience writing, coordinating and managing consents, assent and permit applications.
• Significant experience compiling data and supporting assessments related to ESOS, SECR and ISO14064.
• A relevant professional qualification e.g., IEMA, CIWEM, IES, CIWM and a degree in an environmental discipline are important, as is experience implementing ISO14001.
• A full and valid driving license is essential.

Our Company

Every day we work smarter, greener and use our imaginations. Our purpose at Clancy is simple - we make life better for everyone’s growing families. We play a vital role in providing fresh drinking water and power to millions of homes and businesses and so much more. We are one of the biggest family owned construction businesses in the UK and we care about our people, our clients and the environment.

What Next

You apply, and we respond within two weeks (we know how annoying it is not to hear anything back)! If you don’t receive feedback within that timescale, please don’t be afraid to chase us - one of our values is to do what we say we will do!

Benefits

In addition to helping you reach your career goals, a competitive salary, pension, healthcare and holiday allowance starting at 24-26 days per annum, we also offer perks including Clancy Xtras, our employee benefits programme with discounts for numerous well-known retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Currys PC World and Vue Cinemas, cycle to work scheme as well as an Employee Assistance Programme.

Clancy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for you to attend an interview, please do let us know and we will be happy to accommodate. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Committed.